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MungoBrush wrote:More excellent news to finish the week on:

Hartlepool by-election hangs in the balance as Tories surge
Patrick Maguire
Friday March 26 2021, 9.00am, The Times

Hartlepool is on a knife-edge
It would mark only the third time a governing party had won a by-election from the opposition in nearly 40 years;
the Conservatives don’t yet have a candidate; and most bookies will tell you that Labour is the favourite.

Yet the first poll of the campaign suggests Sir Keir Starmer is in real danger of losing Hartlepool.
It is the first poll to project the result of a contest that will — rightly or wrongly — be viewed by many as the definitive judgment on the first year of his leadership.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/hart ... -c6qhkpk8c

Cannydc wrote:So the "solid" 9% lead is melting away, by your own admission.

Not that solid then.

Hartlepool by-election hangs in the balance as Tories surge
Patrick Maguire
Friday March 26 2021, 9.00am, The Times

Hartlepool is on a knife-edge
It would mark only the third time a governing party had won a by-election from the opposition in nearly 40 years;
the Conservatives don’t yet have a candidate; and most bookies will tell you that Labour is the favourite.

Yet the first poll of the campaign suggests Sir Keir Starmer is in real danger of losing Hartlepool.
It is the first poll to project the result of a contest that will — rightly or wrongly — be viewed by many as the definitive judgment on the first year of his leadership.

Cannydc wrote:So the "solid" 9% lead is melting away, by your own admission.

Not that solid then.

Cannydc wrote:

Another excellent poll result with the Conservatives in a solid 9% lead

Well, that didn't last long, did it?

Westminster voting intention:

CON: 39% (-7)
LAB: 37% (+8)
LDEM: 9% (-1)

via
@BMGResearch
, 16 - 19 Mar
*Chgs. w/ 09 Apr 2020*

Pollster Redfield & Wilton
Con 42% (-1)
Lab 36% (nc)
LD 9% (+2)
Grn 6% (+1)
RUK 2% (-1)
Con lead 6%
Fieldwork 22/3

Another excellent poll result with the Conservatives in a solid 9% lead

Westminster voting intention:

CON: 39% (-7)
LAB: 37% (+8)
LDEM: 9% (-1)

via
@BMGResearch
, 16 - 19 Mar
*Chgs. w/ 09 Apr 2020*

Sir Keir Starmer's critics in Labour become increasingly vocal

Nearly a year after Sir Keir Starmer became Labour leader, he is being accused of not listening to grassroots activists and not being strident enough in opposition.
The focus of the discontent is his reluctance to call for an increase in corporation tax amidst the coronavirus pandemic.
Those on the party's left are now publicly critical, but some current shadow ministers are privately worrying whether the party's positioning on the issue is right.

And in a pre-Budget speech on Monday, another former shadow cabinet member, Richard Burgon, declared that unless Labour is bolder, it could be outflanked on business taxes by the Conservatives.

MungoBrush wrote:

Stooo wrote:I feel that things have changed and I'm politically lost.

I'm watching an increasingly RW Labour party moving in on former tory ideas and policies as the tories further embrace far-right ideology and populism in a bid to retain power, having been centre left for a long time I'm struggling to know where put my X at the next election.

Are you worried about the local elections?
I'll be voting on local issues
I'm thinking that nationally, the Conservatives are stealing the centre ground
And Starmer is firing blanks.
And Labour is stuck in the polls about 6% behind

But, don't worry - more that 3 years to go to the next general election - Thursday 2 May 2024

Stooo wrote:I feel that things have changed and I'm politically lost.

I'm watching an increasingly RW Labour party moving in on former tory ideas and policies as the tories further embrace far-right ideology and populism in a bid to retain power, having been centre left for a long time I'm struggling to know where put my X at the next election.

Stooo wrote:

Cannydc wrote:

Stooo wrote:I feel that things have changed and I'm politically lost.

I'm watching an increasingly RW Labour party moving in on former tory ideas and policies as the tories further embrace far-right ideology and populism in a bid to retain power, having been centre left for a long time I'm struggling to know where put my X at the next election.

What, not Libdem? (Obviously if you vote tactically, well done).

I think you should sit back and simply watch the Tory Brexit party implode. There's a lot of water to flow under the bridge in the next 3 years.

Vote for a councillor who does right by your area, worry about political directions later.

There's a move in the air and I may have another option.

E2A: I'm a member of LD and an activist but they're a bit hollow at the moment. I did vote tactically last time and it made FA difference.

Cannydc wrote:

Stooo wrote:I feel that things have changed and I'm politically lost.

I'm watching an increasingly RW Labour party moving in on former tory ideas and policies as the tories further embrace far-right ideology and populism in a bid to retain power, having been centre left for a long time I'm struggling to know where put my X at the next election.

What, not Libdem? (Obviously if you vote tactically, well done).

I think you should sit back and simply watch the Tory Brexit party implode. There's a lot of water to flow under the bridge in the next 3 years.

Vote for a councillor who does right by your area, worry about political directions later.